From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755833AbXE3XB7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 19:01:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752072AbXE3XBu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 19:01:50 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56067 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751676AbXE3XBt (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 19:01:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 16:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070530.160202.48808347.davem@davemloft.net> To: mpm@selenic.com Cc: kaber@trash.net, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Make net watchdog timers 1 sec jiffy aligned From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070530223612.GR11115@waste.org> References: <20070530221039.GJ11166@waste.org> <20070530.152939.21591222.davem@davemloft.net> <20070530223612.GR11115@waste.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matt Mackall Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:36:12 -0500 > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:29:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Matt Mackall > > Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:10:39 -0500 > > > > > Are you agreeing that "it seems wasteful to add per-packet overhead"? > > > This patch is not doing that. > > > > Yes, and I know that :-) > > Is there a real reason for watchdog_timeo to be all over the map? In theory it's a hardware implementation and link speed specific value, in reality nearly everyone just copies values from other drivers.